Title I is a part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). It is designed to ensure that all children have the opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach proficiency on challenging state academic standards and assessment.

Title I funds may be used for a variety of services and activities, most commonly for instruction in reading and mathematics. Fund flexibility may be used to provide additional instructional staff, professional development, extended-time programs, and other strategies for raising student achievement. The program promotes school-wide reform in high-poverty schools to ensure students’ access to scientifically based instructional strategies and challenging academic content.

A major part of Title I, Part A is the parent component. Schools must ensure that strong strategies are in place to build capacity to involve parents as effective partners with the school. Schools build capacity for parent involvement in the school by helping parents understand academic content standards, state and academic achievement standards, state and local academic assessments, and provide materials and training to assist their children, educating staff in the value and utility of contributions, ensuring that information is sent to parents in an understandable language, and providing other reasonable support as requested.

All elementary schools in Carroll County are designated as Title I School-wide.

The Improving Teacher Quality program increases student achievement by promoting the use of scientifically-based professional development and holding districts and schools accountable for improvements in student achievement performance.

Title IIA will fund training for administrators, teachers, and paraprofessionals, along with all materials associated with the training. All activities supported with this fund must be based on a review of scientifically-based research that shows how such interventions are expected to improve student achievement. Schools must:

• Ensure that activities are aligned with state standards and explain how selected programs will result in Improvement to student academic achievement
  
• Coordinate the program with other professional development programs
  
• Develop professional development activities in a collaborative fashion and seek the input of administrators, principals, teachers, paraprofessionals, parents and other stakeholders
  

Title IIA may also be used to reduce class size.

School districts use Title III funds to provide high-quality language instruction programs that are based on scientifically-based research and are proven effective in increasing English proficiency and student achievement.

The McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth program is designed to address the problems that homeless children and youth have faced in enrolling, attending, and succeeding in school. Under this program, educational agencies must ensure that each homeless child and youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, as other children and youth. They must also have access to the educational and other services that they need to enable them to meet the same challenging state student academic achievement standards to which all student are held.